Price: $58.72
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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780399227608
ISBN: 0399227601
Label: Putnam Juvenile
Manufacturer: Putnam Juvenile
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 214
Publication Date: October 19, 1994
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Studio: Putnam Juvenile
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A diary records a year in the life of Judi Liebowitz as she dreams of becoming the thinnest girl in the eighth grade and struggles to control her unending battle with calories, food, pounds, and anorexia.
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Judi Leibowitz is miserable because she thinks she's really, really fat, in this contemporary middle school book. At age thirteen, she's 5' 4" and weighs 127 pounds, when Seventeen Magazine says she should weigh 120 pounds. No wonder her life sucks and she doesn't have a boyfriend. If only she could look like Nancy Pratt, all skinny and tan and blonde. Everyone knows guys only like skinny girls. Unfortunately, although Judi struggles to stick to a diet, she always ends up overeating and the weight ... Read More
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While we were please with receiving the book, I paid $6.99 for expedited shipping and yet received the book 8 days later. Asked for a $3.00 shipping refund and did not receive it.
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Fat Chance is an amazingly true, honest, and heart-warming book. Leslea Newman does an awesome job on capturing the emotions and pressures of teenage girls. This book's main character is Judi Leibowitz. Judi has three goals. 1) To decide what she wants to be when she grows up. 2) To get a boyfriend. 3) To loose some weight and become "skinny". Judi thinks that everything is going great when she becomes friends with the prettiest, skinniest, and most popular girl in school, Nancy Pratt. But she soon ... Read More
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This book kept my attention & I kept reading on to find out what would happen next. It makes you realize what some teen girls are going through in their lives right now. Every teen girl should read this story because it teaches you some good lessons.
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Fat Chance by Leslea Newman
Life in middle school is already tough enough when you are an unsatisfied American teen like the main character Judy. Although the constant comments made by Tommy Aristo, a mom who won't even let you wear makeup, and growing up being the "fat girl" in the class doesn't make it much easier. So when Mrs. Roth the English teacher assigns the class to write in a journal periodically, Judy comes up with three goals in life that will supposedly solve all her problems: ... Read More
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